Before Inflation
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Observations of the cosmic microwave sky are revealing the primordial nonuniformities from which all structure in the Universe grew. The only known physical mechanism for generating the inhomogeneities we see involves the amplification of quantum fluctuations during a period of inflation. Developing the theory further will require progress in quantum cosmology, connecting inflation to a theory of the initial state of the Universe. I discuss recent work within the framework of the Euclidean no boundary proposal, specifically classical instanton solutions and the computation of fluctuations around them. Within this framework, and for a generic inflationary theory, it appears that an additional anthropic constraint is required to explain the observed Universe. I outline an attempt to impose such a constraint in a precise mathematical manner.
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